1), yes entities are gnerated from a datasource, however I want to be able to execute generate-entities from my pom. So that in my nightly build process I can generate my entities. 2) so in our nightly build process my entities are created from our automated build process, continuum. 3). There are several tools, revgen, salto-db which will create test cases to test the entities and DAO's. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4109418#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...